Views of creativity highlight the importance of incubation or the significance of sketching as a means of seeing emergent properties. Both views put design students at a disadvantage. This study investigates the strengths ...

This study explores how students of architecture characterize design. It focuses on the transformation of student's conception of design as they move from first year to fourth year in their undergraduate education. The ...

This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth year students and expert architects. Participants took part in an experiment consisting of four tasks: rating source examples, ...

Analogy is an essential tool of human cognition that enables connecting two systems with casual relations. Previous research in analogy has focused primarily on role of analogy in creative domains. In literature there is ...

The Jewish Museum in Berlin is the first major building of Daniel Libeskind [1,2]. The project for the museum has instigated a wealth of discussions in architectural circles and achieved a rare status of attracting the ...

Configuration is defined as the entailment of a set of co-present relationships embedded in a design, such that we can read a logic into the way in which the design is put together. We discuss conceptual shifts during ...

This study investigates the role of non-classroom spaces of elementary school buildings where informal interactions among students take place in the example of private elementary schools in zmir, Turkey. The non-classroom ...

This study investigates fifth, sixth, and seventh grade students' place preferences between indoor and outdoor non-classroom spaces during recess and their activity patterns in these spaces in three private elementary ...

This study examines the role of generic abstraction in architectural design, specifically how it facilitates exploration through formulation of a family of design schemes. We maintain that exploration in design, as it is ...

Home is a special place we attach personal importance. The main focus of
this study is the different and complementary meanings of “homes” that Turkish
migrant families in Germany construct. One immigrant family is chosen ...

Everybody perceive space multi-dimensionally however blind people are more conscientious of the non-visual constituents of space. Although there is an extensive amount of research on mobility, perception, and way-finding ...

Defined as the scattering of sound independent from angle, optimum diffusion is very important for the perception of musical sound. For this purpose, Schroeder used mathematical number sequences to propose ʼreflection phase ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensory inputs have an impact on the way-finding strategies of blind people and to identify these impacts, where applicable. We ...